Colonel Harmoush's case offers a microcosm of the opacity that obscures events in Syria as its leaders press a lethal crackdown.
The confrontation with the woman, who has not been identified but who a police spokesperson confirmed would be arrested on charges related to picking up the baton, partially obscures events behind her.
The complete truth about his fate remains elusive in large measure because of a determined Saudi effort to obscure events — an effort that included relaying false information to executives at The Post in the days after Khashoggi's death.
He lards his speeches with references to obscure events in the American past, talks about his time teaching at West Georgia College (not one of those effete Ivies), and has declared that the more than $1.6 million in fees he earned from Freddie Mac was for his work not, heaven forbid, as a lobbyist, but as a historian.
But she competes in a relatively obscure event.
NASA's first lunar landing is not exactly an obscure event.
The old Hav is gone, destroyed in an obscure event called the Intervention.
But one bettor's obscure event may be another's opportunity to make a life-changing score.
The gravest moment of the 2008 crisis wasn't the loud crash of Lehman Brothers but a more obscure event: the near-freeze of the commercial-paper market.
In the six years it has been broadcast, the once-obscure event of sprints and bench presses has become must-see TV for the most devoted fans.
Another, slightly more obscure event the following year also made a lasting impression on me: John Sinclair, the poet and political activist, was convicted of possessing two marijuana cigarettes, and sentenced to ten years in federal prison — a sentence that, even then, was unusually severe.
